{"id":10,"date":"2010-08-30T21:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=10"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:44:51","slug":"to-the-rising-generation-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/08\/30\/to-the-rising-generation-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"To the rising generation of women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mary Hays dedicates this Female Biography<\/em> (biographical essays of almost 300 women in history) to\u00a0“the rising generation [of women] who have not\u00a0grown old in folly, \u00a0whose hearts have not been seared by fashion, and whose minds prejudice has not yet warped.”<\/p>\n

Hays (1760-1843) was a feminist, the child of Rational Dissenters (who believed that state religions impeded freedom of conscience, and that concepts like original sin and the trinity were irrational), and a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft (whom she met in 1792).\u00a0 She treats queens & empresses (Elizabeth I, Catherine II), writers (Anne Bradstreet), and even semi- mythical figures (Dido and Boadicea).<\/p>\n

\"Hays07\"
\nThe Watkinson has both the first English (6 vols, London, 1803) and the first American (3 vols, Philadelphia, 1807 ) editions.\u00a0 As you see from our copy of the latter, it has been in the library for at least 165 years (note the bookplate–Trinity was\u00a0called Washington College from 1823-1845).<\/p>\n

The coverage is quite uneven, with some women (Madame Bontems) getting scarcely a paragraph, while others run\u00a0almost 150 pages (Catherine I).<\/p>\n

Want to find them?\u00a0 Here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=564370<\/a>\u00a0 (London)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=50783<\/a>\u00a0 (Philadelphia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Hays dedicates this Female Biography (biographical essays of almost 300 women in history) to\u00a0“the rising generation [of women] who have not\u00a0grown old in folly, \u00a0whose hearts have not been seared by fashion, and whose minds prejudice has not yet warped.” Hays (1760-1843) was a feminist, the child of Rational Dissenters (who believed that state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}